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Assembling Indicators for a Mississippi River Basin Report Card

...data collected in connection with various management activities already active in the basin, many of which have a long history. For example, the Mississippi River Commission was established in 1879 to manage flood control and navigation in t...

Peter Oliver's top ten books about science

...different places in the world where this approach is being used. Shouldn't Our Grandchildren Know? An Environmental Life Story , Graham Chittleborough Chittleborough was a scientist with CSIRO in Western Australia who wanted to show his grandchild...

Healthy Waterways Healthy Catchments: Making the connection in South East Queensland, Australia

...earch results, instead of almost exclusively research results. The process of developing the outline for this book was a storyboard workshop held at the Moreton Bay Research Station on Stradbroke Island . The lead authors for each chapter develope...

Moreton Bay Study: A Scientific Basis for the Healthy Waterways Campaign

...nd maintain momentum for the Healthy Waterways campaign. The book was initiated in the early part of 1999, with half-day storyboard sessions on the Healthy Waterways whiteboard. My co-author, Eva Abal , and I completed it in six months, relying on...

Top ten science communication booklets

...an exciting challenge since Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) an emerging management paradigm that does not have a long history. The diagrams ended up playing a central role in communicating EBM. Tracey Saxby was the Science Communicator and i...

Let’s Start By Talking About Ecosystem Services

... agree that estimating the values of ecosystem services is useful as a guide to decision-making, but it is not the whole story. Scientific models and benefit-cost analysis do not substitute for the messy process of engaging stakeholders, forging a...

Maryland releases a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan

...s state with a diverse, well-educated citizenry that has responded to many foreign and domestic threats throughout its history. It is entirely consistent with Maryland’s character that we respond to this newest threat with decisive and appro...

Ten recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 2

...3, pg. 25. Recommendation 7. Use science communication to tell stories An ancient and valued form of human expression is story telling. Since science is often focused on gathering and interpreting facts, the art of story telling is often lost. How...

Recommendations for effectively communicating science: Part 1

...e the essential information needed to convey meaningful information. The process of weaving these visual elements into a story combined with text in which all terms were defined, wording carefully chosen to promote understanding by non-specialists...

Coastal Bays report card launch

...sses are now declining in Chincoteague Bay, but the good news is that water quality was up a bit last year. The seagrass story is not just water quality, it also involves climate variability. We have had some very hot summers which are essentially...

Top ten quotes that influenced my career

...r for anyone with aspirations to really make a difference. Margaret Mead was an interesting scientist and her personal history makes the source of this quote meaningful. " It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credi...

Farming and Chesapeake Bay: Initiating a dialog with the Vansville Farmers Club

...vided three handouts regarding Chesapeake Bay issues, and asked three questions of the Vansville Farmers Club. The first story regarded my experiences sailing into Chesapeake Bay in 1977 aboard a tall ship and meeting watermen of Smith Island , ca...

Commemorating Bob Menzer at Marine Estuarine and Environmental Sciences

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 3--Integration and Application Network approach to synthesis

...on of those results. IAN-led synthesis involves typically bringing together relevant experts in a series of workshops to storyboard the science communication product(s), and then have the team of Science Integrators and Science Communicators work...

Scientific synthesis at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science: Part 1--Overview

...ocio-Environmental Synthesis Center , funded by the National Science Foundation . But more importantly, throughout its history, beginning in 1925, UMCES scientists have been integrating (and applying) scientific results in Chesapeake Bay and throu...

Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network

Dr. Christine O'Connell's dissertation defense conclusion = Long Island Sound should be called 'Connecticut Sound'

Me and Bobby Twilley

...faculty member at Louisiana State University . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The I...

What’s the problem? Why should I care? Using Media to Bring Science to the Public

...it newsworthy and timely ? If it is interesting to you, it may or may not be interesting to an editor or a reader. For a story to be picked up by a news agency, it must actually be new , something no one knows about, or an angle that no one has co...

Everything Down the Drain - Why?

...ciferous social reformer, also opposed the move. Hugo used his novel "Les Miserables" to make his case, interrupting the story of Jean Valjean and Cosette to do so. Human waste collected from Paris' cesspits provided the raw material for an indust...

What is the role of science in managing fisheries?

...a 5 year moratorium set in place to protect a dwindling population, the species recovered. Most hailed this as a success story, but the underweight and often lesion covered fish that are now being caught tell a different story. Striped bass rely o...

We're all connected to the Big Easy: Beyond Science into BIG Management of Coastal Louisiana Ecosystem

...ston: U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey. Saucier, R. 1994. Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS), Vol. 1. Britsch. L, and J. Dunbar. 1993....

Australian Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis workshop: "Australian seagrass habitats: Condition and threats"

...serving to enhance the extent and biomass of seagrasses. These reefal systems also contribute to the diversity of life history and morphology traits of Australian seagrasses, which encompass the global diversity of seagrass life histories and morp...

Top ten conceptual diagrams: Seagrasses, streams, eco-rhythms

... guideposts when discussing new projects and working in a new region. In addition, these diagrams represent a scientific story that connects science to environmental management. The graphical approach differs, with two dimensional vs. three dimens...

Top ten human symbols: People, buildings and boats

... in Palau was created by Jane Thomas during our visit to Palau in 2007. These buildings were beautifully decorated with 'storyboards' which used various symbols to depict historic events (many were X-rated). Apart from the content, the Micronesian...

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